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The Eel (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Unagi
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Japanese ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
146 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Uncut

Movie filmed in 1997 and produced in:
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Shohei Imamura

Written By:
Shohei Imamura
Daisuke Tengan

Actors:
Kôji Yakusho ..... Takuro Yamashita
Misa Shimizu ..... Keiko Hattori
Mitsuko Baisho ..... Misako Nakajima
Akira Emoto ..... Tamotsu Takasaki
Fujio Tsuneta ..... Jiro Nakajima
Sho Aikawa ..... Yuji Nozawa
Ken Kobayashi ..... Masaki Saito
Sabu Kawahara ..... Seitaro Misato
Etsuko Ichihara ..... Fumie Hattori
Tomorowo Taguchi ..... Eiji Dojima
Chiho Terada ..... Emiko Yamashita
Shinshô Nakamaru
Sei Hiraizumi
Seiji Kurasaki
Toshirô Ishido

Synopsis:

Veteran filmmaker and perennial iconoclast Shohei Imamura directs this darkly comic tale about love, redemption, and a man's beloved pet eel. The film opens with Takuro Yamashita (Koji Yakusho), a seemingly normal salaryman, learning that his wife might be having an affair. When he catches the couple in flaganto delicto, he freaks out and brutally stabs them both to death. Eight years later, Yamashita is released on parole into the care of a Buddhist priest living in rural Chiba prefecture. Far away from his former life, yet still plagued with memories of his crime, Yamashita decides to start anew by opening a barbershop on a quiet road next to a canal. Though inward looking and self-conscious, he eventually befriends a bumptious but good-hearted day laborer, and a construction worker who's obsessed with UFOs. His most fateful encounter though is with a woman named Keiko (Misa Shimizu), who he discovers unconscious following a suicide attempt. Looking to put a few of her own demons to bed, Keiko decides to stay in this sleepy corner of Japan and help her savior with his barbershop. Initially against the idea -- she bears a striking resemblance to his dead spouse -- he eventually agrees and even grows to like having her around. This film won the Grand Prix at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.

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